# Things you like that everyone else seems to hate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101 "2021-07-22T22:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/301 "2021-08-27T15:32:57Z")
I like a lot of music genres that get a lot of hate: Opera. Disco. K-pop. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/302 "2021-08-27T18:09:54Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > To look at the train or the graffiti? The train. What it has for power, and if it’s a freight, then hoping it’s a manifest ( mixed freight ). I like the variety of the cars, and it’s makes me wonder where all this stuff originated, and where it’s going. Nix on the graffitti. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/303 "2021-08-27T21:42:03Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Nix on the graffitti. Me, I follow a graffiti subreddit. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/304 "2021-08-27T21:52:52Z")
The Harris Teeter I was at supposedly carries chicken liver, since there was a space for it, but apparently someone had stocked that space with chicken gizzards instead. I may try the Wegman’s that recently opened near me, since they carry a pretty diverse selection. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/305 "2021-08-27T22:18:19Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I like a lot of music genres that get a lot of hate: Opera. Disco. K-pop. I love opera! I’m not an expert at all, but I really like it. My gateway drug was watching an old Lily Pons movie when I was maybe 6 or 7 yo where she sang “The Bell Song” from _Lakme_. I was enchanted. The music is glorious and what those people can do with just their voices! Thrilling. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/306 "2021-08-28T00:11:13Z")
When we lived in NYC we had season subscriptions to the Met. I really miss that. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/307 "2021-08-28T00:59:22Z")
Billions of people love opera, k-pop, and disco. The loudmouths who fancy they are cool and worship dead punk rockers and so on may howl like dogs at the moon. I will turn up my music and drown their sorry asses out. Believe me, ‘everyone else seems to hate’ is an illusion. For example: As a girl and then a woman, it was common for chest beaters to mock and disparage anything women liked (because somehow it made them feel like they had a bigger penis). Barry Manilow. Andrew Lloyd Weber and Rossini. Cute Korean boys…all immensely successful… The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/308 "2021-08-28T01:00:56Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on. I’m gonna remember this one. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/309 "2021-08-28T01:15:34Z")
An Arab proverb, I believe. (another one, ‘Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel’.) 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/310 "2021-08-31T20:23:08Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Just the smell of liver cooking can make feel like I’m gonna hurl. Lima beans are fine, though! Amen to that - thank Og the kid is grown, out of the house, and no longer showing dogs, I don’t have to smell liver treats baking! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/311 "2021-08-31T21:17:07Z")
I don’t know from opera, but once I was listening to a (probably PBS) radio program that played a variety of genres. They played a wax record of some (I believe) Swedish singer from way back and it was pretty captivating, and a little twingy that it was probably never heard again. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/312 "2021-08-31T21:51:15Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > They played a wax record of some (I believe) Swedish singer from way back Jenny Lind? She was _hugely_ popular and called the Swedish Nightengale. She was so popular there was a type of bed that was named after her – still available and called that today! > **[Jenny Lind Maple Wood Spindle Kids Bed Frame | Crate & Kids](https://www.crateandbarrel.com/jenny-lind-kids-maple-wood-spindle-bed/f1003296)** > > Shop Jenny Lind Maple Wood Spindle Kids Bed Frame. Our best-selling Jenny Lind Bed is back with a whole new look in trending natural maple. Featuring dozens of intricate woodturnings, a clean silhouette and durable construction, it's a timeless bed... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/313 "2021-09-01T01:11:29Z")
I’m feeling it was somebody obscurish. But I did enjoy it. Thinking back on it, my face was probably like the expression on the Shawshank prisoners when Andy played the record. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/314 "2021-09-01T05:44:49Z")
That was the same Jenny Lind who toured with P.T. Barnum. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/315 "2021-09-21T03:37:55Z")
I just thought of a good one: Elton John’s 1979 album _Victom of Love_ is generally considered one of the worst of his long career. Many people put it at the very bottom. EJ must not like it that much either: He’s never performed any of the songs from it live. Well, I like it. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/316 "2021-09-21T13:15:43Z")
In referencing the 2009 Will Ferrell re-make of _Land of the Lost_ in another thread recently, I discovered it was a box-office bomb and critically panned. I’m not sure everyone else _hated_ it, but it sure seems like pretty much everyone else _disliked_ it. I liked it. I thought it had some bits that didn’t quite work, and I’m not sure it ever actually made me laugh out loud, but I got a lot of smiles out of it. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/317 "2021-09-21T13:31:07Z")
Eddie Murphy’s film _A Thousand Words_ has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but I actually enjoyed it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101.md?page=15)